Formulación de programas especiales concurrentes de desarrollo rural sustentable: lecciones para México

Inefficiency of public spending on rural development in Mexico is derived from the inadequate identification of public problems, budgetary discrepancies, deficiencies in dispersion, and focalization, which express low coordination between offices and actors involved. With the aim of contributing to counteract these limitations, 15 special concurrent state programs (PECE, for its initials in Spanish) were elaborated in 2012 under the direction of the InterAmerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and other government agencies. This study evaluated the application of the methodology used in the formulation of PECEs. The results indicated that the concurrent territorial projects (PTCs, for their initials in Spanish) constitute a first exercise in the definition of objectives, visions, and concurrent actions between some offices, important in terms of the intervention strategies. The logical framework was useful to generate a shared vision and commitment around priorities of territorial rural investment. The participation of an orchestrating agent that offered method, technical support and monitoring was decisive in the continuity and coherence of the process.